The ACCS Family Connector promotes the full integration and functioning of Persons Served (PS) needed to live successfully in the community. Provides outreach, information, referral and direct support services to families and other community members who identify as supports of the PS. Orients and serves as primary liaison to PS families and members of their social network. Enhances PS social supports. Works to involve family/friends in PS life and Treatment Plan interventions as appropriate. Creates and sustains Team’s Family Advisory Council.

SIGN ON BONUS: $3K

 Creates a welcoming environment for parents, families, and other community members who 
identify as supporters in which families/supporters are respected and valued. Orients them to the services their loved one may receive from ACCS; shares personal experiences with and engages their participation in helping the PS to meet their ACCS goals. Functions as primary liaison for PS families (following HIPAA authorization by PS).
• Provides outreach to and collects current and historical family/supporters’ information with focus on understanding the PS family/supporter relationships and their impact on the PS.
• Provides family psycho-education to families, supporters, and guardians. Refer families/supporters to resources in the community for family support and education when appropriate, including NAMI Family-to-Family groups.
• Collaborates with PS and their family members/supporters to determine how they can best support the desired level of family participation in the PS treatment. Addresses family/supporters needs who want to be engaged and are welcomed by the PS, engaged but not welcomed by the PS, and who are not engaged but PS would like them to be.
• Trains and mentors’ staff in maintaining a family/supporter perspective in their work.
• Participates as member of intervention team for assigned PS. Delivers interventions identified on the Treatment Plan targeted at skills building in life domains including but not limited to activities of daily living, medication administration, symptom reduction, health and wellbeing, employment, education, socialization and recreation with supervision from clinically licensed Team members.
• Employs trauma informed, recovery-oriented, person-centered, culturally competent and 
strengths- based approaches and skills training techniques in their work.
• Provides competency-based clinical evidence-based practices and best practices to team members and GLE/SIE staff, including Motivational Interviewing; Harm Reduction and Addiction Treatment; Screening, Brief Intervention, Referral and Treatment (SBIRT); Housing First; Stages of Change; Seeking Safety, Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP), and Cognitive Behavioral interventions, as well as the development of Safety Plans and Crisis Prevention and Response Plans, and 8 Dimensions of Wellness.
• Performs evidenced-based clinical and recovery-oriented interventions for PS, including Motivational Interviewing; Harm Reduction and Addiction Treatment support; Screening; Brief Intervention, Referral and Treatment (SBIRT); Housing First; Stages of Change; Wellness Recovery Action Plans (WRAP); Seeking Safety and Cognitive Behavioral interventions.
• Promotes healthcare and employment and education services access for PS.
• Promotes engagement, housing permanency, community tenure, achievement of greater self- sufficiency and successful completion of service for all PS.
• Provides thorough and thoughtful documentation of PS needs and services.
• Creates and sustains the ACCS Family Advisory Council if families/supporters’ express
interest in joining.
• Participates as member of Family Connector Community of Practice Workgroup for 
continuous role-specific competency development, mentoring and learning.
• Performs other related duties, as assigned.

Knowledge and Skills:
• Strong commitment to the right and ability of people served by ACCS to live, work, have meaningful relationships and receive the clinical treatment, resources and supports needed to thrive in their community of choice
• Strong commitment to the right and ability of people served by ACCS to live, work, have meaningful relationships and receive the clinical treatment, resources and supports needed to thrive in their community of choice 
• Skill in helping people integrate into the community through use of natural supports and basic community resources
• Knowledge of PS engagement strategies
• Knowledge of community inclusion principles and practices, benefits and entitlement resource
• Ability to form supportive, trusting relationships with PS
• Sensitivity to the cultural, religious, ethnic, disability, and gender issues of PS
• Knowledge of human, legal, and civil rights of PS
• Knowledge of the effects of prejudice (including internalized negative attitudes about oneself), discrimination, and oppression of people with psychiatric disorders, and the effects of poverty
• Knowledge and use of different communication and learning styles
• Ability to make independent judgments and decisions
• Ability to work in a professional and confidential capacity
• Knowledge of assessment skills and practice
• Knowledge of recovery-oriented, person-centered and strengths-based values and principles
• Knowledge of trauma-informed and culturally competent services. Sensitivity to the cultural, religious, ethnic, disability and gender issues of PS
• Ability to adhere to the standards of Motivational Interviewing; Harm Reduction; Screening, Brief Intervention, Referral and Treatment (SBIRT); Housing First; Stages of Change; and Cognitive Behavioral interventions 
• Skills and competence to provide interventions for effective Treatment Plan interventions 
• Ability to collaborate effectively with other Team members to address the needs of PS in the Treatment Plan
• Knowledge of personal computer applications and equipment
• Knowledge of documentation standards and requirements

Established in 1977, Vinfen is a nonprofit, health and human services organization and a leading provider of community-based services to individuals with mental health conditions, intellectual and developmental disabilities, brain injuries, and behavioral health challenges. Our services and advocacy promote the recovery, resiliency, habilitation, and self-determination of the people we serve. Vinfen's 3,500 dedicated employees are experienced, highly-trained professionals who provide a full range of supportive living, health, educational, and clinical services in over 550 sites throughout Massachusetts and Connecticut. For more information about Vinfen, please visit www.vinfen.org/careers.

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